Minnesota Republican state representatives Drew Roach, Ben Davis, and Mike Wiener from the Minnesota Freedom Caucus filed articles of impeachment against Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison.
They accuse the officials of enabling rampant fraud, allowing criminals to steal approximately $9 billion from 14 state benefit programs intended for child nutrition, autism support, and housing assistance. The filing follows federal actions, including Vice President J.D. Vance freezing $259 million in Medicare payments to Minnesota amid a fraud probe, and a nationwide moratorium on certain Medicare enrollments.
Adding context in a video statement, State Rep. Ben Davis added, “In my hands, I have articles of impeachment against Attorney General Keith Ellison. As I’m sure you’re aware, he had the Feeding our Future fraudsters in his office doing an alleged quid pro quo. He’s not fit for office.”
Likewise, State Rep. Mike Wiener added, “Impeachment articles for the fraudster in chief, Tim Walz, holding politicians accountable, holding him accountable for the massive amount of fraud in the state of Minnesota. Estimated nine billion taxpayers money that is being wasted. Ready to drop this.”
Additionally, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to investigate these allegations. Starting off his comments, Jim Comer (R-KY) began, “Yesterday, Minnesota’s office of the legislative auditor published an audit of the state’s department of human services behavioral health administration grants.”
“The cover letter of this audit report states, ‘however during the course of our audit we identified a number of documents that the Behavioral Health Administration either backdated or created after our audit happened,'” he added.
Building on this point, Comer stated, “It sounds like Governor Tim Waltz’s DHS may have been fabricating evidence by creating documentation after the fact to mislead auditors. This new report noted that one grantee who received nearly $680,000 from this agency for one month’s work could not provide any documentation or proof that any work was actually completed.”
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Wrapping up his opening comments, the Kentucky Republican asserted, “The report even notes that the grant manager who approved this money left the agency within days of approving the grant to take a job with the very same grantee that they approved money for. Have you ever seen anything like this in your time as a member of the Minnesota’s fraud prevention and state agency oversight Policy Committee?”
Providing much-needed context, State Rep. Robbins explained, “Whistleblower reports show backdating and falsification. We also have a record of childcare fraud where they would allow the providers to submit records far after the investigation and just accept them as true. So clearly this has been a pattern at the agency and it’s unacceptable.”
Watch the Minnesota House Freedom Caucus comment on impeaching Walz here:
Reacting to the stunning allegations, Comer said, “Unbelievable. We want to work with you. We want to work with these whistleblowers. We’re serious about this. The Trump Administration’s on the ground. We want to catch these people.”
Concluding his comments, Comer explained the next steps in the process, saying, “We want to put them behind bars, and we would hold any politician who participated in these schemes accountable. We need people to go to jail or this will continue.”